Raised from the depths: Massachusetts woman つまずくs across the remains of 1884 shipwreck on beach - 140 years after it sank in monster 嵐/襲撃する on the way to Boston
A woman walking her dog on a beach in Massachusetts つまずくd across the 139-year-old 難破 of a historic ship lost in 1884. Nantucket 居住(者) 足緒 Ahern made t he 素晴らしい 発見 earlier in the month, 記録,記録的な/記録するing ビデオ of a section of the three-masted schooner known as the 過密な住居 Sawyer. The ship was lost on the night of December 22, 1884, and 難破させるd 近づく Miacomet Beach during a voyage from New Orleans to Boston. 負担d with a 貨物 of cotton and 捨てる アイロンをかける, the ship was 結局 blown off course by 強風 軍隊 勝利,勝つd.?
Ahern (pictured) was walking her dog when she (機の)カム across its remains, she すぐに 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑うd it belonged to the 19th-century ship, 予定 to several smaller part 存在 設立する in the area weeks earlier. She soon 接触するd Egan 海上の's Evan Schwanfelder, who sent photos of the 難破 to Dave Robinson, the 長,率いる of the 明言する/公表する Board of Underwater Archeological 資源s. Upon 分析するing fragments - which 含むd several 木造の beams and 部分 of the ship's 厳しい - Robinson and his team were able to 確認する they belonged to long-lost 過密な住居 Sawyer.?
The seasoned archaeologist said he 急ぐd to the island to 検査/視察する the shipwreck days after Ahern's 発見, which (機の)カム about 300 yards west of the 場所/位置 where the ship is thought to have 難破させるd. He told the Nantucket 現在の that he had already spent the past two months 研究ing the ship with Nantucket 公式の/役人s like Schwanfelder from Egan 海上の after other, more difficult to identify fragments were 設立する in the area.?He his team, after 注ぐing over all '利用できる literature, archival, photographic, and archaeological 証拠,' were able to 結論する the fragments Ahern 設立する indeed belong to the 過密な住居 Sawyer. 'The more 利益/興味ing (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) I looked at, the more that I 設立する,' Robinson said of his unraveling of the mystery of the 19th century 沿岸の schooner - a 仕事 the archeologist said 'was a bit like pulling a thread on a sweater.'
ビデオ 記録,記録的な/記録するd by Ahern, 一方/合間, 原因(となる)d waves when it was 株d to social マスコミ, showing the savaged 船体 of the ship with her dog in the background. Speaking to Storyful, she 発言/述べるd on how she 即時に knew the remains belonged to an old ship, 予定 to the other parts 存在 discovered on the beach as 早期に as December. 'That schooner 難破させるd on the beach in Miacomet December 1884 and was recently discovered this past December,' Ahern said. 'So we walked up to what we thought was that.' She quickly realized, however, that this 難破 was larger than anything 設立する in 事前の weeks. She quickly 接触するd Schwanfelder, who had already been embroiled in 集中的な 研究 with Robinson. The first pieces of would only later be 確認するd to be the century-old ship were 設立する on December 8, spurring Robinson, along with BUAR Board member Graham McKay, who is also 海洋 archaeologist, to make their first visit to the island.?
The pair soon met with Schwanfelder, 同様に as 長,指導者 curator at the Nantucket Historical 協会 Michael Harrison, and the town of Nantucket's 保護 planner, Holly Backus. The group proceeded to 調査する the 場所/位置 and began the 古記録ing 過程. Their 成果/努力s, and this weeks 発見, 代表する a remarkable finding tantamount to the 海上の history of the 19th century America. The 過密な住居 Sawyer 難破させるd on Nantucket on the night of December 22, 1884, around 11 p.m., after 遭遇(する)ing 強風 軍隊 勝利,勝つd that quickly enveloped the (手先の)技術, 'with only the swaying masts 明白な in the blackness of the night' によれば an account of the 難破させる printed in The Inquirer and Mirror newspaper in 1945.?
The article recounts how 地元の 居住(者)s 割り当てるd to a nearby lifesaving 駅/配置する saved the 乗組員 of the ship by 安全な・保証するing a line over its 屈服する and 運ぶ/漁獲高 all eight men on board to safety. 'With the schooner lurching under the 衝撃 of the seas, it was a difficult 仕事 to keep a 安定した 緊張する on the hawser, but the experienced life savers worked unceasingly and with the coming of the morning of the 23rd, all 手渡すs had been 安全に landed on the beach,' the 89-year-old piece reads. The 救助(する)d, and their 階級s, were as follows: 'Captain Edwin L. Saunders, of Boston; Andrew F. 棺, Addison, Me., mate, Thomas Coleman, Boston, Alexander McLeod, Boston, John O'Daniel, London, Daniel J. Kane, Yonkers, N.Y., George Sibley, London, and Antone Swazey, New Bedford.'?
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